On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Bob De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > Why not just run a hypervisor, and run this as a VM? > There are some subtle differences when systems are run in a vm and I want to eliminate those variables. These variations were rather dramatically pointed out when I was investigating containers which is why I implemented a test bed system. I am really tired of primary use systems that are borked up because a dev team thinks their method of doing things is wonderful and that 'wonderful' conflicts with pre-existing and then I get to troubleshoot AND fix. On my server I'm running stable and my system I'm running testing. Your idea would often be usable but sorry, not in this case. > > On 9/14/2018 6:54 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: >> >> Greetings >> >> I have had it working before but I can't seem to get things right this >> time. >> >> I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the >> choice of which when I boot in. >> Wanting to have available both debian stable (9.5 at present) and >> debian testing (10). This is so I can experiment with software - - - >> adding it and if huge errors result or are caused - - - no real biggie >> because its not a main working box (like the server or my main >> computer). Doing this because I really have gotten to hate having a >> main box down for even a few days because software that I loaded and >> installed caused me to bork the system (I've done this more than a few >> times!!! grin - - -but 'learning' isn't always a barrel of fun!!) >> >> So I've installed both of these systems (more than once each) they >> have their own partitions for everything but boot and efi yet I'm only >> seeing one system available on grub (depending upon the last install >> as to which). So I'm doing something wrong!! I tried using grub >> updating tools (# os-prober) still no joy. The web pages that I'm >> finding seem to be for an older version of grub and, as usual, I'm >> finding man pages are like reading cuneiform (which I find >> unintelligible). >> >> This is likely something quite simple but I'm just not seeing it - - - >> please - - - some ideas/pointers? >> >> TIA >> >> Dee >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list